Title: Installation problem?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Installation problem?

 *  [richdal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richdal/)
 * (@richdal)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-131/)
 * WordPress 4.4.2
    BuddyPress 2.5.2 Widget Shortcode 0.2.4
 * I installed and activated the Widget Shortcode plugin but wasn’t seeing any admin
   left-side menu options for it. I checked the Appearance => Widgets setup and 
   was seeing the new “Arbitrary” widget that was added. I moved a batch of BuddyPress
   related widgets there, but not seeing an widget shortcode being generated?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [shazdeh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shazdeh/)
 * (@shazdeh)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-131/#post-7242774)
 * The way the plugin works is that below each widget you see “Shortcode:” text (
   screenshot: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-shortcode/screenshots/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-shortcode/screenshots/)),
   followed by the actual shortcode that you can use to display that widget. The
   Arbitrary widget area is added by the plugin as a place where you can safely 
   add widgets you don’t want normally to show on frontend (presumably, other widget
   areas are added by the theme which are displayed somewhere in frontend).
    The
   new update also adds a shortcode generator in the TinyMCE plugin, simply find
   the “gear” icon in the editor, click it to reveal a list of widgets you have 
   in the Arbitrary area and choose.

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 * Last reply from: [shazdeh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shazdeh/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-problem-131/#post-7242774)
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